Last week I shared my experience with reading “The Bait of Satan” by John Bevere three times. God used each time to show me I wasn’t as loving, forgiving and righteous as I thought, as I discovered I was holding grudges and hatred against people from sins long forgotten by them.

The department for Public Health (DPH), within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), now reports “widespread” flu activity in Kentucky for the first time this flu season. Widespread is the highest level of flu activity, which indicates increased flu cases or flu outbreaks in at least half of the Commonwealth’s regions.

“Dad, I want to be baptized.” Hearing any of my children express such sentiments is a cause for celebration. However, I also know that the motive for such a desire can be any one of several possibilities. My response, therefore, is always, “Why do you want to be baptized?”